RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE

Here and There:
Photography and Video Works on Immigration
May 1 – June 2 and June 19 – August 25, 2013
Curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel
Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall

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Spanning from the 1950s with photographs from the Black Star collection to today with photographic, new media and video works by contemporary Canadian artists, this exhibition on the theme of immigration will be the first group show featured on the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall.

The different works deal with issues such as voluntary and hopeful immigration to Canada in the 1950s, refugee shelters in the United States and Canada today, and first generation of immigrants now settled in Canada.

On view on the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, May 1 – June 2, June 19 – August 25, 2013

This exhibition is curated by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, Curator at the Ryerson Image Centre. Morel received her PhD in the history of contemporary art from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, and she is a member of the editorial committee of the bilingual refereed journal Études photographiques. Morel was the guest curator of the Mois de la Photo in Montreal in 2009 and she has written essays that have appeared in a number of books and catalogues.

Photograph Credit: Meera Margaret Singh, Community Centre, video still, 2013 (part of the group exhibition Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration, Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, Ryerson Image Centre)